We are a primary care clinic for uninsured patients in the Washington Heights and local NYC area. If you’re interested in becoming a patient at CoSMO, please contact us to get onto our waitlist. In order to meet eligibility requirements you should be:
• 18 years old or over
• Ineligible for Medicaid
• Currently without any health insurance
• Looking for long-term primary care (We are not a walk-in clinic)
If so, call: 720-77-COSMO (720 772 6766) to be added to the waitlist.

Our mission is threefold: to provide comprehensive and multidisciplinary care, promote community outreach, and foster student education, service, and innovation.

Please email cosmochairs@lists.cumc.columbia.edu with any questions.

GENERAL COUNCIL POSITIONS:
1) Associate Coordinator (AC) Chair
– Trains and manages team of associate coordinators
– Must be an AC as your clinical role
– Must be fluent in Spanish

2) Behavioral Health Co-Chair
– Work directly with the Behavioral Health Chair to coordinate all aspects of BH clinic, including day-to-day operations, finances, volunteer management, and patient care
– Excellent for students interested in psychiatry and mental health in general

3) Community Relations and Social Work Chair
– Actively seek and maintain connections with programs in the community where CoSMO patients can be served and integrate into the community (diabetes support groups, mental healthcare, exercise etc.)
– Act as liaison to head of the NYP Social Work Department and school of Social Work
– Work to help patients get access to government and community resources such as food stamps, subsidized childcare, soup kitchens, and insurance

8) Human Resources Chair – Attendings
– CoSMO’s primary liaison between the clinic and volunteer attending physicians
– Ensure that clinic is staffed by an attending physician each week
– Relay information between attendings and the CoSMO Chairs
– Publicize CoSMO at Department of Medicine General Council meetings
– Brainstorm new and creative ideas for recruiting new physicians

9) Human Resources Chair – Students
– CoSMO’s primary liaison between the clinic and student volunteers across all disciplines
– Ensure that clinic is staffed with student volunteers each week
– Ensure that students get signed up for CoSMO at the beginning of each semester
– Promote CoSMO at student club fairs

10) Information Technology Chair
– Maintain and support CoSMO’s two websites: Sharepoint, WordPress, custom ASP
– Help design and implement new IT initiatives to improve clinic efficiency
– Liaison between CoSMO and CUMC IT

11) Institutional Relations Chair
– Advocate for patients in terms of billing and referrals to specialty services
– Follow up on referrals made in clinic to ensure that each patient receives and attends an appointment
– Reach out to departments to draw up contracts for donated appointments (waivers, reduced, fee-scaled, etc.)
– Handle patient bills from referrals brought to clinic

12) Operations Chair
– Plan general council meetings and other leadership events, including scheduling and booking space
– Take minutes at meetings
– Manage communication with general council and volunteers including soliciting feedback, managing the list serve, etc

If you’re interested in becoming a patient at CoSMO

In order to meet eligibility requirements you should be:
• 18 years old or over
• Ineligible for Medicaid
• Currently without any health insurance
• Looking for long-term primary care (We are not a walk-in clinic)
If so, call: 720-77-COSMO (720 772 6766) to schedule an appointment.

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The CoSMO Clinic is a student run free primary medical care clinic for uninsured adults of Washington Heights and Harlem. We need your help in order to continue providing high quality care to our patients and to offer unique and valuable clinical experiences to students of Columbia University Medical Center. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to the CoSMO Clinic by following the instructions here.

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